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What is Petrarchan Sonnet ?
First and most common
sonnet
Also known as Italian
Sonnet
Named after greatest
practitioners,
Francesco Petrarch
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 Who is Francesco Petrarch?
Francesco Petrarca
July 20, 1304 to July 18/19, 1374
Italian scholar, poet, and
humanist

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Who is Francesco Petrarch?
whose poems addressed to
a woman, contributed to
the Renaissance flowering
of lyric poetry

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Who is Francesco Petrarch?

Popularized the form

through 366 sonnets that
he wrote about his love for
a woman

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 Who is the woman?
 Laura
an idealized beloved
who never returned his love

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 divided into two (2) stanzas
the Octave - the first eight lines,
followed by the answering Sestet - the
final six lines

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What is Petrarchan Sonnet ?

The tightly woven

rhyme scheme, abba,
abba, cdecde or
cdcdcd, suited for the
rhyme-rich Italian
language
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What is Petrarchan Sonnet ?

It presents an argument,

observation, question, or
some other answerable
charges in the octave, a turn,
or volta, occurs between the
eighth and ninth lines.
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What is Petrarchan Sonnet ?

This turn marks a shift in the

direction of the foregoing
argument or narrative, turning
the sestet into the vehicle for
the counterargument,
clarification or whether answer
the octave demands.
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Octave’s purpose :
 to introduce a problem, express a desire, reflect on
reality, or the otherwise present a situation that
causes doubt or a conflict within the speaker’s soul
and inside an animal and object in the story
 Introduces the theme or problem using rhyme
scheme of abba abba
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Sestet’s purpose :
to provides resolution for the poem
and rhymes variously, but usually
follows the schemes of cdecde or
cdccdc
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 Octaves

Sestet

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 Octaves

Sestet

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 Octaves

Sestet

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